Better keep your distance from this whale Better keep your boat from going astray

Find yourself a partner and treat them well try to give them shelter every day

'Cos here in this blue light Far away from the fireside

Things get crazy and twisted and crowded You can't even feel right

Chorus: So you dream of Columbus Every time the panic starts

You dream of Columbus With your maps and your beautiful charts

You dream of Columbus With an ache in your traveling heart

See how the cormorant swoops and dives Must be some thrill to go that deep

Down to the basement of his life Down where the mermaid gently sleeps

Not like this blue light Far away from the fireside

Where things can get twisted and haunted and crowded You can even feel right

And as tide must ebb and flow I am dragged down under

and I wait the livelong day For an end to my hunger

So I dream of Columbus Every time that the panic starts

I dream of Columbus With my maps and my beautiful charts

I dream of Columbus And there's peace in my traveling heart

I dream of Columbus